Archive for March 5th, 2012

Kevin Gordon, Americana singer-songwriter: Something Else! Interview

Kevin Gordon, Americana singer-songwriter: Something Else! Interview

Kevin Gordon discusses his terrific 2012 album ‘Gloryland,’ and how John Lee Hooker eventually muscled past poetry in a young man’s heart.

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Guilty pleasures: The Mind Expanders – What’s Happening? (1967)/ Psychedelic Guitars (1968; 2011 reissue)

More than a few clueless shoppers, when purchasing albums like these, were fooled into thinking they were buying a brain-melting slice of sonic revelations from a new groovy group primed to rival their paisley-attired Carnaby Street cousins in England or their lysergic-lathered peers in San Francisco. Although the folks behindRead More

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Mort Weiss: Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry once blew us away under LA's Big Top

Los Angeles/Hollywood, California, in the late 1940s through the early 1960s was a happening place for jazz and jazz musicians. There was always a place to play a jam session, or more correctly session(s) You May Also Like: Ornette Coleman – ‘Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums’ (1958-59; 2022 reissue)Read More

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Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way: Live 1977 (2012)

A rare UK import now seeing wide release that features live recordings and archival material from Fleetwood Mac’s commercial apex, 1977’s Rumours. You May Also Like: Lindsey Buckingham wants Fleetwood Mac to be like the Eagles: ‘They always seem to know what they want’ Fleetwood Mac’s overlong Say You WillRead More

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Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "The Ties That Bind" (1980)